North and South Pacific Albacore Troll and Pole-and-line Landings

The North Pacific Albacore Troll and Pole-and-line landings data set contains landings and transshipment data from U.S. vessels that unload in U.S. west coast ports, foreign ports, American Samoa canneries, and that transship their catches on the high seas

These data are collected for use in monitoring the fishery and stock assessments on north Pacific albacore and to fulfill reporting obligations of Pacific RFMOs and the USA-Canada Treaty.

Landings that occur in USA west coast ports are obtained from PacFIN

Landings that occur in Canadian ports are obtained from logbooks.

Landings that occur in American Samoa are provided by PIRO - American Samoa

Landings that occur in foreign ports are obtained from logbooks and foreign fisheries agencies

The North Pacific Albacore Troll and Pole-and-line landings data set contains landings and transshipment data from U.S. vessels that unload in U.S. west coast ports, foreign ports, American Samoa canneries, and that transship their catches on the high seas.

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Hard copy data are locked in secured area. Data are stored in files on government computers with all of the proper government security measures in place including firewalls, encryption, account number and password protection.

Confidential data limited to users with a need to know (managing, accessing, monitoring or conducting research on the fishery or on fish stocks impacted by the fishery)

Contact point of contact. Supply official request for data and purpose of that request.

Logbook data are confidential and can only be presented in summarized form to the public. However researchers with appropriate clearance can access the more detailed data. Those with access to confidential data need a signed non-disclosure agreement statement to access the detailed data. There are no constraints on access to summarized data.

All use of the data sets should be cleared with NMFS/SWFSC.